Cabinet for wrapping-paper



(No l fio del.)

. s. & E. J. WHEEL-ER. CABINET FOR. WRAPPING PAPER.

Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

m m m ww .wH J' i2. 8m w W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

SETH \VHEELER AND EDGAR J. \VIIEELER, OF ALBANY, NENV YORK.

CABINET FOR WRAPPING-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,202, dated December 3, 1889. Application filed May 18, 1888. Serial No. 274,297. (No model.)

To all 1072 0177, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, SETH WHEELER and EDGAR J. WHEELER, both of the city and county of Albany, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cabinets for Wrapping-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cabinets or cases for containing wrappingpaper in rolls of convenient widths for store use; and the object of our invention is to provide a cabinet adapted to contain several rolls of paper of different widths, or of the same width, but of different qualities, said cabinet being provided with facilities for separating the web of said rolls into sheets of convenient size for use and wit-h facilities for inserting other rolls in place of those that have been. exhausted or have become undesirable. This object we attain by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which are herein referred to, and form part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 a front elevation of one form of our cabinet, in which portions of the side pieces are broken away to show the underlying construction. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same at the line X X. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section at the line Y Y, and Figs. 4 and 5 are respectively an enlarged end elevation and an enlarged front elevation of a modified form of a rocker adapted to effect the separation of rolls of imperforate paper into sheets of convenient size for store service.

This cabinet, when made in accordance with the first three figures of the drawings, is especially designed for containing rolls of paper which are provided with transverse rows of perforations to facilitate their separation into sheets of convenient size for use.

As represented in the drawings, Aindicates the casing of our cabinet, which may be made of any preferred form and size, and may contain any required number of compartments B for holding the rolls of paper; but when containing more than one of said compartments, we prefer to arrange the latter one above the other, as shown in the drawings.

(3 is a front piece for the compartments B. Said front piece is made removable from the casing A, and the side pieces D of the latter are grooved for the reception of the ends of said front piece. One of said grooves is provided with a spring E for forcing the opposite end of the front piece into the groove which is appropriated thereto. Said spring is compressed in the operation of removing the front piece and in restoring it to its place, and in the latter operation one end of said front piece is inserted in the groove which contains said spring and is forced endwise against the latter until the opposite end of said front piece can be entered into the groove that is appropriated thereto. Thereupon theresilience of the spring will force the front piece to move endwise into its groove, and thereby effect the retention of said front piece in the casing A. The removal of said front piece from its place in the casing is effected by reversing the order of the manipulations just described.

F is a longitudinal strip that is fixed in each compartment for the purpose of preventing the rolls of paper from approaching too closely to the opening through which the paper is drawn.

G is a rocker that is loosely pivoted in a longitudinal opening formed between the bottom of each compartment and the lower edge of the front piece belonging thereto, and it should be understood that each of said open ings may contain one or more of said rockers. Preferably we make the number to correspond to the number of rolls of paper that are placed end to end in the compartment to which the rocker is appropriated. Each rocker has in both ends a V-shaped notch 1, that loosely engages on spurs 2 in the bottom of the compartments. Said rockers while in their normal positions have their inwardlyextending horizontal flanges 3 bearing fairly upon the bottom of the compartment, as shown by the full lines of Fig. 2, but upon the application of a slight downward pressure upon the outwardly-projecting and up wardly-inclined flange at said rocker will be tilted into a position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, where an elastic pad 5 on the flange will be brought into contact with the lower edge of the front piece 0, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

The rockers G, when made of a length to correspond with the width of a roll of paper, as when each roll has its appropriated rocker, has the upper edge of the flange 4 inclined or rounded downwardly from the middle toward each end, and this form is given for the purpose of producing an initial strain along the center line of the paper in separating into sheets a roll of paper provided with rows of transverse perforation. Thereby a rupturing of the paper is effected which, beginning at the middle of the web and extending toward each edge, will follow a line of perforations more exactly than when the rupturing is done in any other manner.

When a single rocker is used for a compartment in which several rolls of paper are contained, the upper edge of the flange 4 should have a series of wave-like forms, the number corresponding to the number of rolls contained in the compartment and the length of each corresponding to the width of roll to which it is devoted.

In the modified form of the rocker G, (shown in Figs. 4 and 5,) which is designed for separating the web of rolls of imperforate paper into sheets of suitable length, a blade 6,11aving a serrated upper edge, is secured to the outer face of the flange 4c. The points of said serrations will produce an initial puncturing of the paper, and the inclined edges of the serrations will complete the work of separation.

When the last-described form of rocker is used, the length of the sheets to be separated from a roll is not limited to any particular length, as is the case when rolls of perforated paper are separated.

H is a roll of paper contained in one of the compartments B, the outer end of said paper passing out through the opening formed below the lower edge of the front piece 0, and the full line on Fig. 2 indicates the direction in which the paper can be freely drawn from said roll without affecting the rocker G, and the dotted line on said figure indicates the downward direction thatmust be given to said paper to produce a tilting movement of said rocker, whereby the outcoming paper will be clamped between the elastic pad 5 and the lower edge of the front piece C, thereby holding the paper with sufficient tenacity to permit an applied strain to produce a rupturing of the web either along a line of perforations, or, when the modified form of rocker is used, along the line of the serrated edge of the blade 6.

The operation of our cabinet is as follows: The rolls of paper are inserted in their appropriate compartments, with the free end of each roll protruding through the opening formed below the front piece O in its compartment. The paper from the required width of roll is drawn out in the upwardlyinclined direction shown by the full line of Fig. 2 until a line of perforations is directly over or has passed the upper edge of the flange 4 or until a desired line of separation is directly over the serrated edge of the blade 6, whereupon the direction of the line of draft is changed to about the line indicated by the dotted line on Fig. '2, and thereby the rocker G will be tilted into a position (also indicated by dotted lines on Fig. 2) where the elastic pad 5 will effectually clamp the paper, as hereinbefore described, and then a continued strain on the protruding part of the paper will cause a rupturing of the Web along the line of the upper edge of the flange 4t.

Preferably we make our cabinets with removable front pieces O, for the reason that when so made the rolls of paper can be introduced into the compartments with great facility, and we also preferably secure said front pieces in place in the manner hereinbefore described; but said front piece may be permanently secured in place, with an opening formed below its lower edge, and in such cases one of the end piecesD of the casing may be removable or hinged to the casing; or the back of each compartment may be made removable or to swing open, and, when preferred, a different method of securing the front piece 0 may be substituted for the one herein described.

\Ve claim as our invention 1. A paper-cabinet provided with a tilting rocker loosely pivoted in the opening through which the paper is drawn, said rocker having an upwardly-inclined flange which protrudes through said opening, and a rearwardly-extended horizontal flange, which,

when the rocker is tilted, impinges upon the paper and arrests its forward movement, said rocker having in opposite ends V-shaped notches that are adapted to engage on standing spurs in the bottom of the compartments to form a loosely-fitting bearing on which said rocker can be tilted, as and for the purpose herein specified.

2. A paper-cabinet provided with a removable front piece, which is fitted to engage in grooves in the side pieces of the casing, one of said grooves containing a spring by which said front piece is forced endwise into the opposite groove, as and for the purpose herein specified.

A paper-cabinet provided with a compartment or compartments, each of the latter having a removable front piece and a paperseparating mechanism, substantially as set forth, said separating mechanism and front piece being adapted to coact to effect the clamping of the web of paper between them during the operation of separation, substantially as specified.

4. A tilting rocker for paper-cabinets, the same consisting of a horizontal rearward flange and an upwardlyinclined forward flange, said flanges being inseparable from each other and forming an angle transversely IIO to the axis of said rocker, the latter having in opposite ends a V-shaped notch, in combination with standing spurs fixed in the bot tom of the compartment wherein said rocker is placed, as and for the purpose herein specified.

5. A paper-cabinet provided with an opening through which rolls of paper can be inserted in a compartment of said cabinet, and a removable front piece which is fitted to partially close said opening, so as to form a narrow slot through which the paper can be drawn Without displacing the roll, as and for the purpose herein specified.

SETH XVHEELER. EDGAR J. WHEELER. lVitnesses:

WM. H. Low, S. B. BREWER. 

